Odesa residents called to discuss draft city program for preservation of cultural heritage

The Odesa City Council has planned to hold public hearings on the draft city target program for the preservation of Odesa's cultural heritage for 2025-2028 on August 15.

According to the press service of the municipality, the hearings will be held remotely using an electronic resource - Zoom, a video conferencing software.

The hearings are being held to receive proposals from members of the territorial community of Odesa regarding the program.

The public hearings are open to members of the territorial community whose place of residence or stay is duly registered or declared in the territory of Odesa, or whose actual place of residence or stay is confirmed by a certificate of registration of an internally displaced person. To participate in the public hearings, it is necessary to pre-register, which will take place from July 28 to August 11, 2025.

As part of this program, the following activities are planned to be implemented

• implementation of the management system of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Historic Center of Odesa";
• maintenance of monumental art objects, historical and architectural objects belonging to cultural heritage monuments or located within the historical areas of Odesa
• maintenance and production of memorial, commemorative, protective, informational, etc. plaques; research of cultural heritage monuments, development of the historical and cultural potential of Odesa
• restoration of the historical environment, improvement of the safety of operation of the housing stock of Odesa;
• repair and restoration work on cultural heritage buildings and historical buildings.

The program is to be financed with UAH 663.5 million, including UAH 197.7 million from the city budget, and UAH 465.8 million to be obtained from other sources.

Earlier, the results of the monitoring of urban planning documentation for the territory of the city of Odesa in 2023 showed that the existing General Plan of the city needs to be updated, but no update is planned until all inconsistencies in the documentation, including in the UNESCO zone, are eliminated.

Кирило Бойко